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Update
Johnston County Heritage Center
Spring 2013
RECENT MATERIAL DONATIONS TO THE HERITAGE CENTER
Here’s the list of material donations added to the Heritage
Center’s archives January-March 2013:
• Johnson, Ed, World War II veteran: oral-history interview
by N.C. State Archives (DVD) – from Johnny Batten.
• Photo of Willie Franklin Grimes, Johnston County Sheriff
1912-1918 – from Mary Edna Grimes.
• Book: North Carolina Year Book and Business Directory
1913, by The News and Observer – from Art Andrews.
• Worley's & Pepsi-Cola soft drinks bottled in Selma, N.C.,
n.d. – from Art Andrews.
• Book: Living With Miss G by Mearene Jordan, 2012
– from Ava Gardner Museum.
• Book: Upon These Steps - Brothers in NC. 23rd
Regiment by David C. Reavis – from Gwen Canady.
• Photo of Smithfield High School Class of 1912 – from
John Hobart.
• Barber Mill history: copies of 1879 documents and photos 1925 and later; copy of Needham Whitley family photo
– from Robert W. Barber.
• Photo of Smithfield High School ninth graders, 1933
– from Warren Grimes.
• Book: A History of the Tar River Baptist Association,
1830-1921 – from Betty Jean King.
• Alpha Beta Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma Society
International records, including biographies of Johnston
County educators collected 1998-2000; Kennedy assassination clippings in large scrapbook by Smithfield School
fifth graders, Agnes Gunter, teacher, 1963 – from Julia A.
McCullers.
• Farming & household records of Costa William Hocutt,
O'Neals Township, 1940s-1970s – from Patricia Braswell
Miller.
• Book: Vance County Heritage 2011 – from Mark Pace,
Vance County Heritage Book 2011 Committee.
• Genealogy book: Avera and Allied Founding Families of
Averasboro, North Carolina, Fourth Edition, 2013 – from
Claude Vernon Medlin Jr.
• Photos: Yelvington Grove School children, c.1922, and
Smithfield School students, mid-1920s – from Beverly
Braswell.
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Johnston County Heritage Center
Update
Vol. 11, No. 3
Spring 2013
Exhibit has artifacts and photographs from 1913
“Now playing” in the Heritage
Center’s exhibit hall is a display of
artifacts and photographs giving us a
glimpse of “1913 – The Way It Was A
Hundred Years Ago.”
The exhibit is an extension of the
theme for our annual Contributing
Patrons Appreciation Dinner held in
January, and it’s based largely on the
narrative written for that occasion by
Julia A. McCullers, a member of the
Johnston County Heritage Commission.
Our display of artifacts from 1913 (or
thereabouts) comes from Art Andrews,
an avid collector of all things historical
who’s also a member of the Heritage
Commission.
Meanwhile, the dinner presentation
on 1913 – featuring a couple of skits by
volunteer re-enactors – is ready for us to
“take on the road” to any civic gathering
interested in this entertaining mode of
revisiting our history. We’ve done one
This photograph of Benson folks gathered around an automobile in 1913 comes
from the Heritage Center’s archives. Persons identified include Mr. and Mrs.
M.T. Britt and DeLeon, Henry Slocum, and W.O. Rackley.
“show” for a local Rotary Club and have
another scheduled for late summer before
a church-based group.
If you have an idea for additional
presentations, please contact me by
phoning 919-938-4708 or e-mailing
[email protected].
– Wingate Lassiter
P.O. Box 2709
Smithfield, N.C. 27577
RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED
Paintings by African-Americans on display
This Edison Phonograph is part of the
Heritage Center’s 1913 display.
Also on display in the Heritage Center’s exhibit hall this spring is a collection
of paintings by Johnston County African-American artists. Pictured here is a large
painting done by the late Carson George for Smithfield’s St. Mark AME Church.
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Update
Johnston County Heritage Center
Spring 2013
Heritage Center beneficiary of $75,000 from charitable trust
Nan Ogburn Cullman, who grew up
in Smithfield, has named the Johnston
County Heritage Center a beneficiary of
$75,000 over the next 10 years from a
charitable trust she has established. The
gift comes with no restrictions.
Mrs. Cullman is the eldest daughter of
the late J.V. and Bunnah Jones Ogburn.
She presently resides in Beaufort, N.C.
with her husband, Hugh Cullman, retired
CEO of Philip Morris, Inc. Two of her
siblings are present-day Smithfield
residents: Lu Long Ogburn Medlin, well
known as a former “Miss North Carolina,”
and Vic Ogburn, long-time member of the
Smithfield Town Council.
Mrs. Cullman’s donation is the second
major gift to the Heritage Center since its
establishment in the late 1990s. The other
is an endowment funded by the Holding
family, principal owners of First Citizens
Bank which also donated the building that
houses the Heritage Center. The Holdings’
endowment each year distributes earnings
to the center through the N.C. Community
Foundation. This year we got $13,310.
With the Cullman gift, the Heritage
Center expects to cover 25 percent of our
annual operating budget with donations in
fiscal year 2013-14.
SPECIAL FINANCIAL GIFTS
TO THE HERITAGE CENTER
– April 2012 through March 2013
Leading “Boys To Men”
The Heritage Center’s Black History Committee hosted a
program Feb 9: “Boys To Men,” focused on challenges facing
young African-American males. Adult men making presentations
were: (left to right) Lamar Minter of Smithfield-Selma High
School, Marlon Lee of Clayton High, retired band director Roger
Walker, Shaw University alumni director Seddrick Hill, and Rev.
Sterling E. Freeman of First Missionary Baptist, Smithfield.
HERITAGE CENTER BASICS
• The Johnston County Heritage Center is located at
241 East Market Street – in the heart of Downtown
Smithfield.
• Our phone number: (919) 934-2836.
• Our mailing address:
PO Box 2709, Smithfield, NC 27577
• Our Web address: www.johnstonnc.com/heritage
• Our hours of operation:
9:00-5:00 MONDAY-SATURDAY
Heritage Commission
Belle Allen
Art Andrews
Pearl Blackmon
John Booker
Charles Creech
Carolyn Ennis
Mary Nell Ferguson
Heather Ford
Ann Huckenbeck
Tanya Jones-Boland
Stanton Massengill
Julia McCullers
Claudia O’Hale
Helen Smith
Mary Stephens
Vicky Temple-Rains
Myra Wallace
Given in memory of:
• Ned Cunningham – by Frank, Betsy & Fronia Knott
• John Shallcross Sr. – by Mary George Narron
• Sue Lassiter Wood – by Mary Nell Ferguson, Betty C. Ramos
• Merle Moore Quast – by Gene & Helen Stephenson, John
McPhail, Sandra J. Hollands, Rudolph & Belle Allen
• Dorothy Creech Holt – by Edwin C. Holt
• Elizabeth J. Lassiter – by Eva & Kenneth Baker, James
Ransom Creech, W.O. (Ossie) Fields Jr., Kay & Bill Kennedy,
John P. McPhail, Joyce L. Mitchell, Rebecca S. Owens, Jess
& Cindy Pittard, Vicki White, Carolyn G. Ennis, Harold M.
Medlin Sr., Betty C. Ramos, Mary Frances Bingham, Bill &
Eddie Jackson, John & Barbara Whitley, John C. Lassiter, Bill &
Edith Simpson, Dr. William E. Smith, Ernie & Margo Allsbrook,
Landis & Paula Bullock, Susan & Andy Holland, Margie & David
Stubbs, Melzer A. (Pat) Morgan Jr., Doris R. Cannon, Valerie J.
Howell, Jean W. Andreaus, Charles & Betty Ridley Hall, Janice
W. Branch, Ellen M. Kinsinger, Fran Abell Zeigler, Katherine
Moore Jolliff, Shelby & Linda Stephenson, Reubin C. (Windy)
Thompson Jr., Trilby J. Mays, Shirley & John Booker, George &
Gayle Mast, Barbara Woodall Perry & John C. Woodall
• Owen Smith – by Rebecca S. Owens
• Edison Williford – by Rebecca S. Owens
• Susie Mae Finney Narron – by Charles & Carmen Creech
• Rita Crocker – by Betty C. Ramos
• Reubin C. Thompson Sr. – by Reubin C.(Windy) Thompson Jr.
• Evelyn Turner Aycock – by Neal Haworth & Sherri Allen of
Edward Jones Investments; Smith-Bryan Chapter, DAR
Given in honor of:
• Vitus Hinton Carroll – by Wingate & Susan Lassiter
• Sadie Lee Kennedy – by Wilson & Janet B. Lee
• Marjorie D. Langston, Danny Langston & Bob Langston – by
R. Ken Langston
Donors without designation:
• William J. St. Peter
• Joyce & George Anderson
• Edwin F. Pearce
• Kenneth & Peggy Starling
• Barbara Kay Parrish
• J.P. George
• Nan Ogburn Cullman (charitable trust)
• Janice C. White
• North Carolina Community Foundation (Holding endowment)
Spring 2013
Johnston County Heritage Center
Update
HERITAGE CENTER’S CONTRIBUTING PATRONS FOR 2013
$26,075 from
223 donors
DIAMOND ($1,000)
Dr. & Mrs. John M. Booker
PLATINUM ($500)
Art & Rosa Andrews
Atkinson Milling Co. Inc.
Kay & Terry Carroll
Jerry & Mary Nell Ferguson
Ella Ann & Frank Holding
Heritage Commission members
– in memory of Elizabeth J.
Lassiter
Denton & Jane Lee
Margaret & Joseph Maron
Charles & Jenelle G. Moore
Jack & Claudia O’Hale
GOLD ($250+)
Rudolph & Belle Allen
Mary Edna Grantham
Norman B. Grantham, III
David & Diana Huggin
Tom & Hope Humphrey
Cliff & Joyce Mitchell
Smith-Bryan Chapter NSDAR
Mary & David Stephens
George & Eleanor Thomas
James Thomas Vinson, III
Henry & Joyce Wright
SILVER ($100+)
David & Carol Arnn
Stephen Aschmann & Carol
Benson
Emery & Kim Ashley
Wallace & Jean Ashley
Gail & Joe Austin
Jay & Belinda Baker
Bob & Linda Barefoot
Larry & Lacey Barnes
Janice & Ken Bateman
Keith Beamon
Edward & Pearl Blackmon
Ben & Sarah Ogburn Blalock
David & Tanya Boland
Tim & Sandra Broome
Mr. & Mrs. W. Landis Bullock
Joyce Lipscomb Canady
Steve & Gwen Canady
Commissioner Jeff & Boo
Carver
James & Ramona Cash
Sharon L. Castleberry
Gene & Mary Ellen Causby
Jack & Judy Coats
Lee & Alice Colbert
Cornell & Jane Cox
Bertha Crabtree
Charles & Carmen Creech
Lynda Creech
Neal & Lorine Davis
Grover Dees
Dr. M.G. & Lola Stephenson
Delbridge
Bill & Patsy Denning
Norman & Jean Denning
Claud & JoAnne Dunn
Jean Dunn
Bobby J. & Anne P. Eason
Sybil M. Edwards
Ossie & Jean Fields
Dr. & Mrs. F.O. Fitzgerald
David & Heather Ford
Hursell McClain Fowler
Pat & Calvin Godwin
Jennie & Franklin Grimes
Warren & Genie Grimes
Jeff & Denise Hall
Thad E. Hardee
Sam & Joan Narron Hardy
Perry & Jean Harris
Tom (W.B.) & Kathleen Hinnant
John & Frankie Hobart
Ray K. Hodge
Hon. Paul A. Holcombe, III
Elizabeth Myatt Holsten
Robert & Ruby Holt
Ricky & Valerie Howell
Ann & Rich Huckenbeck
Betty Lynne & David Johnson
Dorothy G. Johnson
Mr. & Mrs. Marshall H. Johnson
Myrtis E. Johnson
Dr. & Mrs. Oliver C. Johnson
Paul & Lee Johnson
Mr. & Mrs. Todd Johnson
Broadus & Corliss Yvette Jones
Jean L. Jones
Jimmy & Jackie Jones
Michael & Paige Kay
Frank & Betsy Knott
Carl & Marjorie Lamm
Faye & Ross Lampe
Herman & Dianne Lancaster
J.H. Langdon, Jr.
R. Ken Langston
Frank & Kay Lanier
John C. Lassiter
Henry & JoAnne Lee
Joyce & David Lee
Tony & Anita Liverman
David & Margaret Marshall
Stanton & Pam Massengill
George & Gayle Mast
Julia & Earl McCullers
Lisa Ferguson McIntosh
Lisa & Mark McMillen
Harold M. Medlin, Sr.
Nellie Lee Millsaps
Christopher & Victoria Morris
James W. Narron
Graham & Angela Neville
Melvin Oliver, Jr.
Osborne & Rebecca Smith
Owens
Parrish Cleaning Services, Inc.
Jane & Joe Patterson
Carlton & Suzanne Pernell
Dr. & Mrs. Riley C. Pleasants
Julia E. Powell
Lynn & William Ragsdale
Donald & Vicky T. Rains
Betty Coates Ramos
Richard H. & Pia M. Royall
John & Ann B. Sanders
Mary Cooper Sauls
Elizabeth J. Sawrey
Richard Self & Becky Veazey
Jesse & Kathy Sellers
Pete & Sarah Sellers
Charles & Jean Simmons
Herb & Louise Simmons
Helen W. Smith
Durward & Ann Stallings
Millard & Patti Stallings
Bobby T. Stephenson
Gene & Helen Stephenson
Shelby & Linda Stephenson
Vickie & M. Durwood
Stephenson
David & Margie Stubbs
James L. Talton
Marvin & Gunilla Taylor
Jack & Janie Temple
Harold & Carolyn Tharrington
Fred & Betty Toole
Tom & Emily Vinson
Quinton K. & Thelma W. Wall
Robert D. & Frances Warren
Eldridge & Julia Westbrook
Tresa Wood Wheeler
Donna McDowell White
Hampton & Betsy Whittington
Mary Lillie & Charles Wilkins
Carolyn Williams
Roy A. & Jean S. Williams
Ed & Brenda Wood
Leonard S. Woodall, M.D.
Bruce & Ann Woodard
Carlyle Woodard & DeLane Tart
Lanie & Jim Woodard
Debbie & Gordon Woodruff
BRONZE ($50+)
Georgia Perry Adam
Ernie & Margo Allsbrook
George W. (Billy) Austin, Jr.
Bill & Sarah Avery
Mary Frances Bingham
Rose Boyd
Jane Kate Brown
Jean L. Bryant
Sybil Champion
Jean E. Collins
Judge Andy Corbett
Eleanor N. Creech
Ransom Creech
Will R. Crocker
April, Chad & Ava Culver
Evelyn A. Ellis
Julia S. Elsee
Barbara Taylor Ennis
Dr. Carolyn Grantham Ennis
Mary Ann Stallings Farrior
Ellen D. Fleming
Sarah L.C. Flowers
Elaine M. Forman
Dr. N.B. Grantham, Jr.
Faye A. Hardee
Dennie T. Harris
Willa Mae Johnson Harvester
Linda S. Hester
Rick & Caroline Hester
Harold Hinnant
Tina S. Hobbs
Edwin C. Holt
Charlotte E. Hoyt
J.M. Johnson, Jr.
T. Ruffin Johnson, Jr.
Jacqueline Lacy
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Lippitt
Betsy B. Massengill
Arnold L. & Jeanette McLain
Georgianna McLean
Lu Long Medlin
Grover & Judy Miller
Mary George Narron
Frances Dawson Norris
Cheryl L. Oliver
William R. O’Neal IV
Dr. & Mrs. Dicky E. Parrish
Thomas H. & Phyllis Parrish
Pat Proctor
Walter & Jill Lee Rasor
Sarah Ann Butts Sasser
John & Meg Scovil
Bettie L. Smith
Rebecca S. Starling
Larry C. Strickland
Patricia C. Taylor
Gerald & Glenda Toler
Myra R. Wallace
Shirley P. Wallace
Susan Kilgore Wiley
Edith Powell Rose Wilkins
Janet D. Wilson
Mary S. Windley
Genevieve Medlin Woodall
H.C. Woodall, Jr.
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